jonathan, i'll go to you first. you wrote the gop might as well be dead. sure, the tweet was later corrected. come on people, the lowest level black person could have told them the tweet was wrong or offensive. not that anyone listened, assuming there are any low level black people there, which is hilarious but also probably true. the outreach, it's cosmetic. >> when you look at the gop autopsy, it's airy fairy, we must use best practices to reach out to the african-american community. best practices is that nonsense world used in the consultant's world, which means we don't know what to do, how to go about this. lets talk to somebody else with the answer. this would not have happened -- rosa parks tweet would not have happened. the unfurling of the confederate flag would not have happened. lar lar larry clayman would not have been allowed had michael steele been the chair of the republican party because he knows what kind of message that sends to african-americans, what that does for the reputation of the republican party, and he would know to stop it. lo